There are over 4,000 native bee species and many are in decline. Here are beneficial types of garden bees that need a boost ...

In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive fly 55,000 ... to the bees as "White Man's Fly." ...

Peter Tyson is Online Producer of NOVA. Chief sources The Wisdom of the Hive: The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies,by Thomas D. Seeley (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press ...

Asdhan Kulung (right) has attached ropes to a hive ... bees are guarding gallons of a sticky, reddish fluid known as mad honey, which, thanks to its hallucinogenic properties, sells on Asian black ...